Strubbeling Quotes & Sayings

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. — Jim C. Hines

Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love. — Debasish Mridha

A sergeant despatch rider came up and handed me a message, which read, 'The war in Europe is over.' I called out to the sergeant, 'I've got a message here. The war in Europe is over.' He said, 'Very good, sir,' saluted, turned to some men nearby, and said, 'The war in Europe is over. Five-minute break. — Julian Thompson

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. — Aeschines

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out. — Richard Gere

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would. — J.C. Ryle

A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part. — Saint John Chrysostom

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other. — Neil Gaiman

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. — Gurinder Chadha

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict. — Pope Benedict XVI

In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural history
an intimate science predicated on the time-consuming collection and naming of life-forms
gave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial. Much the same thing happened to the conservation movement, which shifted from local preservationists with soil on their shoes to environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C. — Richard Louv

So, at the end of the day, humor works by distracting a person long enough to lower his resistance to the new information and then makes a positive association with the person/brand/computer screen that provided that humor to him. The reality is that people want to be entertained more than they want to be educated. Brand owners have gotten wise to this and now connect with consumers by providing information in an entertaining manner. It's what the ad agency world has dubbed "infotainment." The new school of business teaches that if you do not deliver your information via infotainment, you lose out to those who do. — Marshall Chiles

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story. — Charles Kuralt

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called Living — Terry Pratchett

There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. — Mark Lawrence